Butt had contested provincial assembly elections on a PPP ticket from PP-157 constituency in the 2013; has also served as a member of the PPP-affiliated People’s Youth Organization.

Babar was being supposed to be elected on the post of PPP General Secretary for Lahore division today; but interviews of the party’s candidates has postponed which were to taken by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party.